Life’s perfection — variety of acts and self-motion
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Two marks: richer operations + freer self-agency.
Self-motion = independence from an external mover.
More / better acts and less determination = higher life.
Latin
IV. Porro vitae perfectio, ut ex definitione facile colligi potest, in duobus praesertim consistit: primo, scilicet, in motuum & operationum praestantia & varietate: deinde in agentis, ut sic dicam, αὐτοκινησίᾳ: id est, ejus in agendo ab externo motore independentia, atque indeterminatione. Ac proinde perfectius vivunt ea quae plures & praestantiores motus exercere possunt, & quae minus ab alio in agendo dependent & determinata sunt.